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Article: I WATCHED NAZIS WORK AUSCHWITZ SLAVES TO DEATH; SCOTS POW WITNESSED HORROR OF THE HOLOCAUST.(News)
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- Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- January 21, 2001
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Byline: JOHN MACLEAN
On Saturday we will, for the first time, mark Holocaust Day in memory of the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis during the Second World War. More than one million were killed at Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, near a factory where a young Scots prisoner of war, Peter Black, worked as a slave labourer. This is his story.DURING a break from work, Peter Black listened intently as a foreign workmate tried to strike up a conversation in halting English.
The man told Peter: "If I'm sick one day - not bad," and raised a thumb. "If ...